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"Learning and understanding operate by making connections. We come to comprehend something when we can bring it into association with other things we already know. Mind and memory are themselves hyperenvironments" (Burbules & Callister, 2000, p. 48).

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Who uses wikis?

• Business: The Biz Wiki, Forbes.com Corporate Org Chart Wiki, Cingular, Disney, Kodak, Michelin, Motorola, Nokia, and Yahoo, Second Life Business Communicators Wiki
• Community: Flu Wiki, Minnesota Bridge Collapse
• Education: Curriki, We Are the World, Wikibooks
• Non-profit Organizations: One Laptop Per Child Initiative
• Research & Publication: Association of Internet Researchers, Elsevier, Open Wetware (MIT), Wealth of Networks - Main Page - WikiNotes

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Click through this slide show to see examples of many different wikis.

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What might wiki use in education look like?

• collaborate on projects -
  • International Collaborative Wiki - Jerusalem - Wiki being used to facilitate cultural collaboration between students in Canada and Jerusalem

• communicate with parents
  • Weybridge Elementary School - Wiki being used as a website for an elementary school

• design motivating learning environments -
  • Advanced Placement Comparative Review - Review site collaboratively authored by high school students
  • Code Blue - Interesting example of how an elementary science teacher has organized students into teams to work on "real world" problems
  • Dorman-Data-Digest is a high school social studies/history website
  • East Elementary Projects - a math connections wiki
  • LanguageLinks2006 - Wiki designed to facilitate articulation, induction, and mentoring for student teachers
  • Madame Shackelford - Example of a wiki that is taking advantage of technological affordances for teaching and learning French
  • Transliteracy / Participatory Media Literacy - Interesting, wiki-based course and resources re: social media

• engage students in social issues
  • EBP Independent Research Project - Social Issues Wiki
  • GeoPedia - National Geographic

• display student work and evaluate progress
  • art110 - Superb example of the many ways a wiki can be used to support teaching and learning . . . note the publication of student work (photo of the week), engaging students with text (daily questions), etc.
  • Flushing French

• facilitate clubs and professional learning communities
  • Loveland High School - Professional Learning Communities - Wiki being used to facilitate professional learning communities in a high school in Colorado

• immerse students in interdisciplinary projects
  • Literary Allusions in Popular Music - South Lyon HS, MI teachers (Click on the Sidebar tab to see the "Table of Contents")

• improve productivity
  • Fifteen Productive Uses for a Wiki - A list to jump-start your thinking about how you might use wikis to facilitate your own professional productivity

• scaffold thinking and writing
  • Advanced Placement Comparative Review - Review site collaboratively authored by high school students
  • Historical Thinking - This page demonstrates how one teacher is using Weintraub's "layering" approach to help students iteratively deepen their knowledge and understanding by leading them through different disciplines, genres, and source materials to explore different facets of a single topic

• support professional development
  • Edorigami - Extensive wiki with links to examples of how various social technologies can be used in education
  • Information Fluency - Outstanding list of links (on a Wikispaces wiki) to educational blogs, edtech standards, research reports, tech-related videos, and other web 2.0 resources that would be useful in professional development re: 21st Century Literacies and tech integration

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References (Including wikis from slideshow)

Archer, Allison, & Wehunt, Wes. (2007, December 7). We are the world. We are the world - PBWiki. Retrieved March 16, 2008, from http://wearetheworld.pbwiki.com/

Bender, Walter. (2007, April 24). One laptop per child wiki. Retrieved November 14, 2007, from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home

Burbules, Nicholas C., & Callister, Jr., Thomas A. (2000). Watch IT: The risks and promises of information technologies for education. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

e-Democracy.org. (2007). 35W. E-Democracy.org. Retrieved November 14, 2007, from http://pages.e-democracy.org/35W

Elsevier. (2007, August 16). Main page - WiserWiki. WiserWiki - Media Wiki. Retrieved March 26, 2008, from
http://wiserwiki.com/Main_Page

Goodnoe, Ezra. (2005, August 8). How to use wikis for business. Information Week. Retrieved November 14, 2007, from http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331&pgno=3&queryText=

LeFever, Lee. (2007, May 29). Wikis in plain English. CommonCraft: Explanations in Plain English (on YouTube). Retrieved March 12, 2008, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&

Mattson, Melanie. (2005, June). Flu wiki - about. Flu Wiki - PM Wiki. Retrieved March 26, 2008, from